Three Jacks receive Summit honors

South Dakota State University women's basketball players
Ashley Eide and Megan Waytashek earned first-team all-Summit League recognition
and Katie Lingle was honored as the Summit League Sixth Woman of the Year
Thursday as league officials announced award winners prior to the start of this
weekend's Summit League Basketball Championships.

A senior from Sioux Falls, Eide moved to the first team
after earning second-team honors during the 2011-12 season. She ranked second
on the team in scoring during Summit League play with an average of 12.7 points
per game, while also collecting four rebounds per game. Eide, who reached the
1,000-point mark this season and was Summit League Athlete of the Month in
December, enters postseason play with an overall scoring average of 13.9 points
per contest.

After being sidelined most of her first two seasons due to
injury, Waytashek put together a breakthrough season in 2012-13 by averaging a
team-best 15.7 points per game in league play to go along with 4.6 rebounds per
contest. Twice the sophomore from Lino Lakes, Minn., posted 30 or more points
in a game, including a Jackrabbit Division I era-best 33-point effort at Kansas
City on Feb. 2. A three-time Summit League Player of the Week honoree,
Waytashek shot 54.2 percent from the field, including 51.4 percent from
three-point range, and 84.2 percent at the free throw line in 16 league
contests. Overall, Waytashek leads the team in scoring at 14.9 points per game.

Fort Wayne's Amanda Hyde was honored as the Summit League
Player of the Year. A junior, Hyde leads the league in scoring at 18.7 points per game and is second in the league at 87 percent from the free throw line.

Rounding out the all-Summit League First Team were Omaha
forward Paige Frauendorfer, IUPUI forward Kerah Nelson and Kansas City guard
Eilise O'Connor.

Lingle provided consistent play off the bench on both ends
of the floor for the Jackrabbits, averaging 9.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.25
blocked shots per game in league play. The senior from Pierre shot 51.2 percent
from the field in league play, while reaching double figures in scoring six
times. For the season, Lingle ranks third on the team in both scoring (8.6 ppg) and rebounding (4.5 rpg).

Lingle is the third Jackrabbit to earn Sixth Woman of the
Year honors in the last six seasons, joining Kristin Rotert (2007-08) and Jill
Young (2008-09).

Other award winners included IUPUI's Dee-Dee Bellamy as
Summit League Defensive Player of the Year and Austin Parkinson as Summit
League Coach of the Year. Ashley Luke of Western Illinois was selected as Summit League Newcomer of the Year. All league awards are based on votes from head coaches, sports information directors and select media.

The Summit League Basketball Championships tip off at noon
Saturday at the Sioux Falls Arena as the top-seeded Jackrabbits, 22-7 overall,
host 9-19 Oakland.